Elementary school teachers are taking an artistic stance to having students learn about geometric shapes, rather than solving problems in textbooks.

Students drew modrians, a grid of vertical and horizontal lines, in their math classes and were asked to identify the number of right angles and where they were located in their artwork.

“The kids used math within the art,” said Mike Correa, the district’s art coordinator.

Through a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the district implemented an art integration program this year that aims to teach kids math, science and reading through art.

“It is a renaissance movement,” said Correa. “It gives kids a chance to be the whole child.”

Educators across the district have collaborated with art teachers throughout the year on projects to engage students in artistic and innovative ways.

“This has opened up opportunities for collaboration,” said Jodi Fortuna, director of elementary education.

With the goal of increasing writing and literacy skills, kindergarten students drew pictures of raccoons, squirrels and bears hibernating in caves — and explained why they go dormant in the winter.

“They were working really hard on literacy,” Fortuna said.

The students’ artwork and writings are on display at six kiosks on the Assabet Valley Rail Trail with several winter scenes drawn by high schoolers.

At the middle school, students in science classes viewed disease cells under a microscope and drew the shapes of the cells to help them identify what the disease cells look like.

With the aim of bettering elementary students’ writing skills, Farley Elementary School fourth-graders created a superhero patterned after themselves, drew the superhero and wrote a biography about their superhero’s powers.